Wakami Lake Provincial Park is pretty far north for us. When we got there we noticed that there was basically no one there. It felt as if we pretty much had the place to ourselves. We stayed here a couple nights and really liked the place.
Just a little north on the road to the park is the Atlantic watershed which was a neat little surprise for us to stumble upon.
This was an interesting drive, we left Grundy Lake and drove four hours to Wakami. It was a bit daunting at times, like when the GPS sends you down an old logging road. There are no street signs, oversized logging trucks that take up more than half the road. My poor little Versa with her backpack hiding in the shadow of these beasts, trying to get us through and to our next destination. When we made it near the park we lost the radio signal, I’ve never stayed this far north before.
When we turned onto the park road it seemed to keep going, I wasn’t sure we were going to reach the gate house. The park has a quiet beauty to it, the trees stand tall and here you can see the natural break in the forest between the deciduous and coniferous.
We rented a small motor boat and took a trip on the lake. It wasn’t exactly the best weather for boating either but I really wanted to get out on the water. We did do some fishing but I only have big fish tales to tell, I’ll save those for a future post. We learned that this lake, like a lot of northern lakes was filled with leeches and they were getting into our minnow bucket and eating them. It makes sense to just use the leeches as bait.
At night it got really dark and the stars were amazing, you can lay there and listen to wolves howling in the distance. We left the rain fly off so we could see everything while in the tent. For July it actually got pretty cold, there just happened to be an arctic wind blowing when we decided to leave. This is when we realized that we have pretty good sleeping bags and Quen and I zipped ours together for some added warmth. Mafio was hilarious one morning as he was fast asleep in his sleeping bag and had managed to work his way off the air mattress and was using it as a pillow. (The air mattress is about 8″ thick)
A duck came and visited us at our site. Take a look at the video below, for more please visit our youtube channel, be sure to like and subscribe.
Wakami Lake Maps
Wakami Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Canadian province of Ontario. Located in the Sudbury District near the towns of Chapleau and Sultan, the park was established in 1969. The park includes camping and boating facilities. Events at the park have included an annual Woodsmen’s Day to educate visitors on the work and lifestyles of traditional lumberjacks.